> On Apr 30, 2019, at 07:16, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 4/30/19 2:02 AM, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> With the repo changes associated with the April 17 changes, >> https://pgstef.github.io/2019/04/17/one_rpm_to_rule_them_all.html >> It is evident that support for amazon linux has been dropped. >> While you can try to use redhat pgdp packages, they are not >> installable on Amazon Linux, giving the following error... >> /etc/redhat-release is needed by pgdg-redhat-repo-42.0-4.noarch >> I confident that the rest rpms available in the repo can be used by >> Amazon linux, but the redhat-release dependency is painful for >> automation with existing recipes such as postgresql in chef. >> Before I invest the effort to produce a pull request to address this, >> I wanted to confirm that amazon linux has been dropped and will no >> longer, nor likely ever be supported for the rpms repo's, or is it >> still on the road map? > > You will need a community account to see the issue: > > https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/4205 > > The relevant part: > > Updated by Devrim Gündüz 4 days ago > > " > Hi, > > We dropped Amazon Linux support years ago, there were lots of compatibility issues. The new repo RPMs just reflect that. > > Please switch to a supported distro, or rebuild RPMs from SRPMS. > > Regards, Devrim > I've been using the rhel6 repo with AL without issue for a long time now. it looks like they added a new dependency that breaks this, but I recently tested this workaround and it seems to work: `rpm -Uvh --nodeps https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/testing/11/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-redhat11-11-2.noarch.rpm` the other thing is that I do is a `s/$releasever/6/g` on `/etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-*.repo` -- i have this all baked into some ansible scripts and my scripts are working fine just now when i spun up a new ec2/postgres test server -Jeremy Sent from my TI-83
